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this Intelligence some days before that my Brother, urged
thereto by diverse & sundry weighty causes & considerations,
had written to the Prince for leave to repair to him
at Petersburg as soon as possible. Forgetting That,
and not choosing to be reminded of it, all hands
were set to work in his Noddle to forge pleas for
going to you; he could find other business by
the way, it was not above 300 Versts, he could
get there by such a time, be back by such a time
and so on; I had before begun to represent to him
that by all this straining to the destruction of a
thousand Affairs he has upon the Anvil here, all
he could get would be the seeing you a very few
weeks sooner than he would otherwise, for he had
learnt from the Countess that you persevered in
your intentions of treating us with a sight of
you in your way to Petersburg in September:
however I left him the last word, knowing he
would come to himself again after the first
Spirt was over, and his eagerness had time to cool
upon his Pillow.

He was going after dinner taking four or five of his
Officers, upon a days visit to a Pole's who has no
name, and who lives fifty or sixty Versts off, I don't
know where. His merit is that hearing that, since
Prince Dashkoff had left us, I was in want of a
Bear to keep me company, he had declared with

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